[Info-vax] another HP website fubar

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-06-21 14:34:44 +0000, Neil Rieck said:

> Thanks for that link because using it allowed me to find this one: 
> http://h30266.www3.hp.com/ODLIndex.asp
> 
> Humorous coincidence: This week we racked then powered a brand new 
> Itanium rx2800-i2 purchased from HP. These things come with no manuals, 
> no media, and no installed OS. Now to be fair to HP, two weeks ago they 
> emailed me links to download all the necessary manuals as well as an 
> ISO containing OpenVMS which I had to burn to DVD; no big deal. This rx 
> will not boot the ISO as-is (well, it appears to boot the DVD for 
> several minutes then stops with no messages on the VGA terminal; the 
> message was on the serial console associated with the iLO).

For those that haven't previously encountered the console selection 
mechanisms (or blissfully forgot them): 
<http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1132>

> So on Friday I was using chapter 4 of "HP Integrity rx2800 i2 Server 
> User Service" to properly install OpenVMS from the DVD. This manual 
> contains a lot of broken links (well, many were broken on Friday but a 
> few seem to be working today, Sunday). The bottom of page-81 instructs 
> the reader to visit http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/os84_index.html for 
> additional information, and this link is still dead.

That URL link should never have been used in that context.  
Unfortunately, various of the sorts of links that should have been used 
in that context — the "go" links — are presently broken, too.  I've 
seen other references to the h71000.www7.hp.com server, so there'll be 
more dead links encountered.


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